Tuesday, 13 September 2016

Is True Equality Ever Achievable?

Because One Can Hope.

Equality, whether it be
between the sexes, between the races, or between the LBGTQ+ community.
Somewhere someone is fighting for the equality that they deserve. In today’s
society the struggle for Muslims to achieve equality in the west is more
difficult than ever. In the middle east females are struggling with issues of
FGM. In America the divide between

African Americans and other American groups
is also regressing.

In times like this it is
hard to see the end to inequalities happening any time soon. Even in the most
successful countries such as the UK, inequality is very much present. Laws such
as ‘The Equal Pay Act 1970’ do not seem to be tackling the pay gap between male
and female counterparts.

The inequality lies much
deeper than the law. Anything and everything lies key to the cause of
inequalities. Whether this be the education system, cultural values or
tradition. Sociologically speaking it has been found that the stop and search
crime is actually a way of targeting minorities in the UK due to institutional
racism.

So the question is can we
somehow reverse all of the past and cause equality? My personal answer is no. I
certainly think we have made some huge progress over the past 10 years in achieving
equality in some aspects such as the legalization of gay marriage across the
United States. But we have also regressed in some areas, especially in racist
tensions.

Inequality is becoming
more transparent with the emergence of social media. For example, I go onto one
music video starring a female in a bikini, the comments will be filled with
“wow put some clothes on”, where as a male counterpart will get comments such
as “sexy”.

Equality has reached its
peaked and we are now regressing. We can only get somewhat close. Even now we
have a very long way to go to even achieve some sense of equality.

So whether we do achieve
100% true equality, it will not be in our lifetimes that’s for sure.

Comment Question- Do you believe that equality can
be achieved globally whether this be equality between the sexes, races or
homosexuals?